With tonight being Halloween, the Huron County Museum & Historical Gaol shared word of the tale of Maggie Pollock and the Huron County Witch Trial as written by area students Lyra Lewis & Mary Murdoch.
Margaret Pollock, more often referred to as “Maggie or “Miss Pollock” was a woman bore in Huron County on May 11, 1879.
She was a housekeeper at her brother’s farm in Morris Township, near Blyth.
She claimed to be possessed with a peculiar occult gift that she used several times to help locate stolen or lost property.
Her powers for seeing the unseen led to her fateful case.
For details on this amazing story you can visit the Huron County Museum website.
